I can not think of one psych. that was aviable in ancient egypt, and the heiroglyphs all represented common objects in Egypt and they put them together in such a way that it would be hard to misinterpert them. Aztec religion centers around the Sun and focuses a lot on time and the destructive element of nature. It was not an optimistic religion or anything like that, infact people were often sacraficed out of fear.
The Bible makes perfect sense btw. The Old Testament reads like the history of the Hebrew people and the New Testmanet represents an evolution in God and the parables of Jesus. If you want to understand most western civilization literature, you're going to have to understand The Bible and Biblical allusions.

The reason the government has outlawed recreational drugs is because they are in fact harmful to society. It is not the drugs themselves even, its human nature, because people will always use and abuse. Another problem is drugs usually inspire thought that is outside the box, which in any large country is a threat to the government.